In Memory of Nikolai Ivanovich Khoroshevsky (May 1, 1950–23 December, 2018)

Abstract. Nikolai Ivanovich Khoroshevsky (01.05.1950–23.12.2018) was an outstanding researcher of the culture of intellectual activity in Rostov-on-Don, who published such works as “How to memorise to remember? (Psychological Workshop)” (Rostov-on-Don: Phoenix, 2004), “Modern Methods of Memory and Thinking Development” (Moscow: Nauka-Spectr, 2008, 2015), “Games for Mental Health: Training of Intellect” (Rostov-on-Don: Nauka-Spectr, 2012). All his pedagogical and scientific activities were related to Rostov State University, and later to the Southern Federal University. After graduating from the university in 1975, he worked as an instructor in the Rostov Komsomol Obkom and later was elected the first secretary of the Soviet district committee of Komsomol in Rostov-on-Don. In 1983, he defended his candidate’s thesis on the personality and its social responsibility. From the same year, he began working at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the Faculty of History of Rostov University. His research interests included the study of approaches in public thought in Western Europe to the essence of the concepts of “nation” and “nationalism”.

Keywords: Nikolai Ivanovich Khoroshevsky, SFedU, Rostov University, nation, nationalism, culture of intellectual activity, professor.